Suzan Johnson Cook

Suzan Cook
United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom
In office April 2011 – October 2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	John Hanford
Succeeded by	David Saperstein
Personal details
Born	(1957-01-28) January 28, 1957 (age 67) New York City, New York, U.S.
Political party	Democratic[1]
Alma mater	Emerson College (BA) Columbia University (MEd) Union Theological Seminary (M.Div., DDiv)

Suzan Denise Johnson Cook (born January 28, 1957) is a U.S. presidential advisor, pastor, theologian, author, activist, and academic who served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom from April 2011 to October 2013.^[2] She has served as a policy advisor to President Bill Clinton and later to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros, a dean and professor of communications at Harvard University, a professor of theology at New York Theological Seminary, a pastor at a number of churches, a television producer, and the author of nearly a dozen books. She was the first female senior pastor in the 200-year history of the Mariners Temple Baptist Church in NYC part of the American Baptist Churches USA and a close friend of Coretta Scott King. She is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.^[3]